The recent onslaught of COVID -19 has moved laundry operators and safety specialists—both in-house and outside advisers—to rethink their approaches to safety issues in order to expand efforts to protect staff from incidents that can hurt individual employees as well as staff morale and productivity.

COVID & SAFETY POLICIES

“I think it just broadened the scope,” says Michelle McNeil, Healthcare Linen Services Group (HLSG), speaking of the impact of the pandemic. “Getting to the core is what’s important in order to manage the risks.” McNeil, director of safety for the St. Charles, IL-based HLSG, added that the evolving state ...